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							<title><![CDATA[The Real Greenspan Lesson for Warsh on Inflation]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Furman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Those calling for the Fed to cut rates should look again at the relationship between prices and productivity growth]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Was Bidenomics a Big Mistake?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/bidenomics-big-mistake-100000124.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Furman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the Obama administration's top economists is offering a scorching public critique of Biden's economic legacy.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Post-Neoliberal Delusion]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/post-neoliberal-delusion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Furman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The tragedy of Bidenomics.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America's Wage-Price Persistence Must Be Stopped]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/inflation-wage-price-spiral-requires-fed-tightening-by-jason-furman-2022-08</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Furman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The US Federal Reserve tried hope as a macroeconomic strategy last year and ended up contributing to today'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s rapid inflation. Now that it has accepted the need for monetary-policy tightening, it must stay the course until inflation is no longer fueling wage growth and feeding back...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Much Power Do Economists Really Have?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/review-essay/2022-06-21/quants-in-the-room</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Furman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In 1962, Kenneth Arrow, one of the greatest economists of the twentieth century, joined the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, which had been created a decade and a half earlier to provide impartial economic analysis to the president.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Will U.S. Consumers Keep Spending?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-consumer-spending-economic-outlook-by-jason-furman-2022-05?a_la=english&amp;a_d=62961bd5465bceee4950b73b&amp;a_m=&amp;a_a=click&amp;a_s=&amp;a_p=homepage&amp;a_li=us-consumer-spending-economic-outlook-by-jason-furman-2022-05&amp;a</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Furman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jason Furman explains why high inflation and declining real wages have not caused households to reduce their outlays.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Inflation Is Demand-Driven and Persistent]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/inflation-demand-driven-persistent-by-jason-furman-2022-04?a_la=english&amp;a_d=625fbc7a8d287218295157cb&amp;a_m=&amp;a_a=click&amp;a_s=&amp;a_p=homepage&amp;a_li=inflation-demand-driven-persistent-by-jason-furman-2022-04&amp;a_pa=cu</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Furman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jason Furman emphasizes that all the stories about supply shortages cannot explain the economic big picture.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Did Almost Nobody See Inflation Coming?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/2021-us-inflation-forecasting-errors-economic-models-by-jason-furman-2022-01?barrier=accesspaylog</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Furman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jason Furman ascribes near-universal forecasting errors in 2021 to not taking economic models seriously enough.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Crisis Opportunity for Biden Administration]]></title>
							<link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-11-30/biden-build-back-better-economy</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Furman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The new administration will have space to craft a COVID-19 relief package that addresses underlying economic problems.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nationalism, Immigration, and Economic Success]]></title>
							<link>https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/nationalism-immigration-economic-growth-by-jason-furman-2018-07</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Furman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There can be no question that immigration provides a net economic benefit to advanced economies, particularly those experiencing a retirement boom. But as long as anti-immigrant sentiment dictates the political narrative, growth will suffer, and resurgent populist forces will grow...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Debt Crisis Coming: Don't Blame Entitlements]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-debt-crisis-is-coming-but-dont-blame-entitlements/2018/04/08/968df5c2-38fb-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html?utm_term=.4fbc3a73a7f4</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Furman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The U.S. unemployment rate is down to 4.1 percent, and economic growth could well increase in 2018.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Consumer and business confidence is high.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' What could go wrong?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Presidents Shouldn't Talk About the Stock Market]]></title>
							<link>https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/06/trump-stock-market-216944</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Furman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Obama learned that lesson the hard way. Trump will, too.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tax Reform Should Not Make Other Problems Worse]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/352382-tax-reform-should-not-make-other-problems-worse</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Furman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If we set aside the ideological issues of revenue levels and distribution, there is no reason we could not reach agreement on a meaningful tax reform. Absent that, it is likely that any tax changes they will be temporary tax cuts, which would both increase the deficit and increase...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Make Tax Reform Bipartisan]]></title>
							<link>https://t.co/Qxs5tkEMGS</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Furman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Focus on fixing the badly broken corporate-tax system, and commit to no loss of revenue.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[White House Budget Plan Shortchanges Economic Future]]></title>
							<link>http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/economy-budget/324401-the-white-house-budget-shortchanges-americas-economic</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Furman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump campaigned on a promise to invest more in America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s infrastructure. In recent weeks, the White House has tried to tamp down expectations, stating that the administration'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s infrastructure effort will begin in 2018. The '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'skinny budget'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' released today...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Mass Incarceration Doesn't Pay]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/21/opinion/why-mass-incarceration-doesnt-pay.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Furman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' growth in the nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s prison population has been nothing short of staggering. The United States'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' incarceration rate is now more than four times the world average, with about 2.2 million people in prisons and jails. Of those, roughly 200,000 are federal inmates, double...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Smart Social Programs]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/11/opinion/smart-social-programs.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Furman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' DO government efforts to support low-income families work? Since the War on Poverty in the 1960s, skeptics have argued that even if these programs provide temporary relief, the only long-term impact is increased dependency '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' witness, they say, the persistent lack...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Unemployment Is Down, But Still Work to Do]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/unemployment-is-down-and-we-still-have-work-to-do/2014/07/04/7172bee6-0383-11e4-b8ff-89afd3fad6bd_story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Jason Furman</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Thursday we learned that the U.S. economy added 288,000 jobs in June, concluding the largest first-half-year for job growth since the late 1990s. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate has fallen by nearly 4 percentage points from its peak of 10 percent in October 2009, with the pace of...]]></description>
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